Feather River Canyon Oroville to Quincy © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 1 ROUTE INFORMATION ............................................................................ 4 1.1 Background .......................................................................................... 4 2 WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD U30B DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ......................... 6 2.1 General Electric U30B ............................................................................ 6 2.2 Design & Specification ........................................................................... 6 2.3 Cab Controls ........................................................................................ 7 2.4 Keyboard Controls ................................................................................. 9 3 WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD F7 DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ........................... 10 3.1 Electro-Motive F7 ................................................................................ 10 3.2 Design & Specification ......................................................................... 10 3.3 Cab Controls ...................................................................................... 11 4 ROLLING STOCK ................................................................................. 12 4.1 [FR] U30B.......................................................................................... 12 4.2 [FR] F7 WPRR A-Unit ........................................................................... 12 4.3 [FR] F7 WPRR B-Unit ........................................................................... 13 4.4 [FR] WPRR Caboose ............................................................................ 13 4.5 [FR] Flat car with Trailer Load ............................................................... 14 4.6 [FR] Flat car with Timber Load .............................................................. 14 4.7 [FR] Plug-door Insulated Boxcar ............................................................ 15 4.8 [FR] 50ft Double-door Boxcar ................................................................ 15 5 ADVANCED BRAKING CONTROLS .......................................................... 16 6 SIGNALLING........................................................................................ 22 6.1 Signal Aspects .................................................................................... 22 7 LINE SPEEDS ...................................................................................... 23 7.1 Speed Signs ....................................................................................... 23 7.1.1 Permanent Speed Sign ...................................................................................23 7.1.2 Other Line Speeds ..........................................................................................23 © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 2 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 8 SCENARIOS ........................................................................................ 24 8.1 [U30B] 1. Keddie Consignment: Part 1 .................................................... 24 8.2 [U30B] 2. Keddie Consignment: Part 2 .................................................... 24 8.3 [U30B] 3. Keddie Consignment: Part 3 .................................................... 24 8.4 [F7] 4. Crescent Mills to Keddie ............................................................. 24 8.5 [U30B] 5. Oroville Bound: Part 1............................................................ 24 8.6 [U30B] 6. Oroville Bound: Part 2............................................................ 24 8.7 [U30B] 7. Oroville Bound: Part 3............................................................ 25 9 RAILFAN MODE SCENARIOS ................................................................. 26 9.1 [RailfanMode] 1. Oroville ...................................................................... 26 9.2 [RailfanMode] 2. James ........................................................................ 26 9.3 [RailfanMode] 3. Rock Creek ................................................................. 26 9.4 [RailfanMode] 4. Tobin ........................................................................ 26 9.5 [RailfanMode] 5. Camp Rodgers ............................................................. 26 9.6 [RailfanMode] 6. Rich Bar ..................................................................... 26 9.7 [RailfanMode] 7. Virgilia ....................................................................... 26 9.8 [RailfanMode] 8. Keddie ....................................................................... 26 10 ADVANCED BRAKING QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE .................................. 27 10.1 Getting Moving ................................................................................. 27 10.2 Going Down Hill ................................................................................ 27 10.3 Stopping .......................................................................................... 28 10.4 PCS Light Illuminated ......................................................................... 28 10.5 FAQ ................................................................................................ 28 11 CREDITS ........................................................................................... 30 © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 3 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 1 Route Information 1.1 Background Western Pacific’s Feather River Canyon route is one of the most dramatically scenic and highly-engineered railroad lines in North America. The Western Pacific was a late comer to America’s railroad scene – WP was not incorporated to build its main line from Salt Lake City to the San Francisco Bay Area until 1903, and its final spike was not driven until 1909. As a result, the Western Pacific was constructed to exceptional engineering standards that featured numerous high trestles, bridges, and tunnels, and a routing that topped the rugged Sierra Nevada with an eastbound ruling grade of 1 percent. From Oroville, on the eastern edge of California’s Great Valley, the Western Pacific Railroad’s route through the Sierra Nevada Mountains clung to the canyons of the Feather River’s Middle and North Forks, climbing from an elevation of less than 200 feet above sea level at Oroville to the 5,200-foot summit of Beckwourth Pass near the California-Nevada border, then descending into the desert of the Great Basin. An early advocate of diesel motive power, Western Pacific in the middle decades of the twentieth century was renowned for battling mountains and desert country with magnificent silver-and-orange diesels and perhaps, most notably, for representing the western leg of the passage for the renowned Burlington-Rio Grande-Western Pacific California Zephyr. Train Simulator’s Feather River Canyon route recreates the Western Pacific main line from Oroville to Quincy Junction, California, as it existed in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the route also includes a segment of the Inside Gateway (Western Pacific’s important connection with the Great Northern and later Burlington Northern) from Keddie to Crescent Mills, as well as the trackage of the lumber-hauling Quincy Railroad short line. Included are the remarkable features of the Feather River Canyon, including famous Keddie Wye and Spanish Creek trestle (where the Inside Gateway connected with the Western Pacific east-west main line), bustling Oroville yard and roundhouse, the famous rail and road bridges of Pulga, and the nearly countless tunnels, such as the “Honeymoon Tunnels” near Belden, that Western Pacific’s visionary builders used to form the WP into an railroad engineering marvel. © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 4 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 5 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 2 Western Pacific Railroad U30B Diesel Locomotive 2.1 General Electric U30B General Electric’s “Universal” line of road diesels – nicknamed “U-Boats” – debuted with the 2,500-horsepower U25B in 1959 and was progressively developed and expanded until GE introduced its “Dash 7” line of diesels in the late 1970s. GE’s 3,000-horsepower, four-axle U30B, built from 1966 through 1975, was one of the best-selling and successful of the U-Boats, with 291 units constructed. Although a long-time customer for Electro-Motive power, Western Pacific in 1967 began purchasing the U30B, in large part due to its high tractive effort, and assigned the orange-and-silver units to priority main line tonnage. Through 1969, Western Pacific purchased 19 U30Bs (WP 751-769) and the railroad added two ex-GE demonstrator units (WP 770-771) in 1971. 2.2 Design & Specification Builder General Electric Transportation Systems Locomotive Weight 274,385 lbs (124.46 tonnes) Vehicle Length 60ft 2in (18.2m) Vehicle Width 9ft 11in (3.02m) Top Speed 70 mph (112km/h) Brake Types Dynamic/Regenerative/Electropneumatic Tractive Force 70,00lbs (starting) 64,000lbs (continuous) © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 6 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 2.3 Cab Controls © Copyright Dovetail Games 2016, all rights reserved Release Version 1.0 Page 7 Train Simulator – Feather River Canyon 1 Throttle 12 Sander 2 Reverser 13 Bell 3 Dynamic Brake 14 Ammeter